Selected Inspiring Quotes from Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Blogger's Note: These quotes were culled from selected writings of St Augustine by Religious Education Students as part of their online activity in commemoration of the birthday celebration of St. Augustine last November 13. 

A. Inspiring Quotes

ALYSA REMORQUE (2CO-A16)

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run. ― Confessions

PRINCESS JOY N. EMBOLTORIO (2CO-A16)

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. ― Confessions

NOFE GLYDELL PENACUBA (2CO-A16)

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you. ― Confessions

RENICA ANTOINETTE L. ORTALIZ (4CO-A26)

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them. ― Confessions

TIFFANY ANNE G. AYUBAN (4CO-A26)

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness. ― Confessions

MEAH PEARL P. GANARIAS (4CO-A26)

Love is the beauty of the soul.― Confessions

JELLIARNE A. MAGLALANG (2CO-A18):

Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet. ― Confessions

CASPER JOHN N. MUÑOZ (2CO-CO2)

Too late that I love you, O Beauty so ancient yet so new! Too late that I love you, and behold you were with me all the time. ― Confessions

MA. KARINA B. DE LEON (4CO-A21)

In all these things which I review as I consult You, I can find no safe place for my soul except in You. ― Confessions

ELVIN MARC D. FLORES (4CO-A21)

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence. ― Confessions

IRIS P. SANTILLAN (2CO-A16)

Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. ― Confessions

AYNNE JOLYN C. CADIAO (2CO-A16)

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them. — City of God

CASSANDRA JOYCE L. LIU (2CO-A16)

You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace. ― Confessions

RENLY A. LAYSON (4CO-A21)

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.
― City of God

MARY GRACE R. LEONORA (4CO-A26)

And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought. ― Confessions

MA. JESILOU G. DATO-ON (2C0-A12)

Unless you believe, you will not understand. ― De Libero Arbitrio

BROMARIE M.OLARTE (2CO-A12)

Do we know anything save what is beautiful? But what then is beautiful? What is it that allures us and delights us in the things that we love? Unless there was grace and beauty in them they could not possibly draw us to them. ― Confessions 4, 13, 20

RHE ANN SHANE T. MAKILAN (2CO-A12)

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.  ― Confessions

MARIA BLESSEL MAE SILOY (4CO-A26)

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all. ― Confessions

LEIZEL LEYBLE (4CO-A27)

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. ― On Love

BARMAE JOY DELCANO (2CO-A16)

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds. ― City of God

JANN MARIE GRACE ANTOLO (4CO-A26)

Curiosity pretends to be a desire for knowledge, while you [God] know all things in the highest degree. ― Confessions

MARIELLE LYN G. SADIO (4CO-A26):

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of conscious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you. ― Confessions

CHARIZE C. VALENCIA (4CO-A25)

Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and its passing it brought me other hopes and other memories. ― Confessions

RHIZA FAITH A. MAGDADARO (2CO-CO2)

For a human individual to be mature needs certain equilibrium in these things: talent, education and experience. ― Confessions

HERLYN B.OMILIG (2CO-CO2)

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. ― On Adversity

JENNIFER P. DELFIN (2C0-A20)

O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heard and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed. ― Confessions

MARIE ANGELIQUE S. ALAYON (4CO-A26)

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
― City of God

WENDY D. VILLA (4CO-A27)

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.  ― Confessions

SAMANTHA FLORA C. ESCOBAR (2CO-A16)

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. ― Confessions

JEANNIE GRACE B. MENDOZA (4CO-A27)

For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets. ― Confessions

PATRICIA ROSE R. REGENIO (2CO-A16)

Love and do what you will. ― In Epist. Joann. Tractatus, vii, 8.

PATRICIA JENNA G.OTERO (2CO-CO2)

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. ― Confessions

KALYN MAY S. DORMITORIO (2C0-C02)

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
― Confessions

EMIE ROSE E. NAGUM (2CO-A18)

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. ― Confessions

REMBRANDT D. FIRMEZA (4CO-A21)

 
Some things are to be enjoyed, others to be used, and there are others to be enjoyed and used. ― On Christian Doctrine 1, 3

JAMES WILLIAM T. JAMILI (4CO-A26)

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou may believe, but believe that you may understand. ― Confessions

JERO MARIE SALIBIO (2CO-CO2)

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves. ― Confessions

B. Other Quotes

RINA MELISSA D. RESGUARDO (4CO-A26)

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
― Confessions

PAUL JUSTIN B. DEOMA (4CO-A21)

No longer was he the man who had joined the crowd; he was now one of the crowd he had joined, and a genuine companion of those who had led him there. ― Confessions

SHAIRA MAE R. JAMOLOR (2CO-CO2)

You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things. ― Confessions

ARIANE G. BARREDO (4C0-A21)

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
― Confessions

ALLEN ROSE A. BALBOA (4CO-A21)

The soul is torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity. ― Confessions

MARY THERESE P. LAGUNDAY (4CO-A26)

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ― Confessions

GLEN MEG DESCUTIDO (2CO-A16)

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light. ― Confessions

YVONNIE C. EBUENA (4CO-A26)

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity. ― Confessions

RACHAEL ANN CABACUNGAN (2CO-A16)

Let such a person rejoice even to ask a question ‘what does this mean?’ Yes, let him rejoice in that, and choose to find by not finding rather than by finding fail to find you.― Confessions

ELMALYN G. LEMERIC (2CO-A16)

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder. ― Confessions

DANIELLE PORRAS (2CO- CO2)

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
― Confessions

KRISTEL MAE HAMELON (4CO- A21)

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.
― Confessions

ATHENA P. MONTEZA (2C0- A12)

What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits. ― City of God

MARIZHYRA JAEL G. CORDEVILLA (2CO-A16)

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable. ― Confessions

JONALYN C. GO (4CO-A26)

Order is that which will lead us to God, if we hold to it during life; and unless we do hold to it during life, we shall not come to God. ― De Ordine

DARREN D. SALMORIN (2C0-C02)

Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ― On the Good of Marriage

VAN CHRISTIAN S. AMAR (4CO - A21)

We must speak also of the earthly city, which though it be mistress of the nations is itself ruled by its lust of rule. ― City of God

NORMAN N. BALDOMAR JR. (4CO-A25)

I don't care to inquire why they cannot believe an earthly body can be in heaven, while the whole earth is suspended on nothing. ―City of God

LOU BERNADETTE ALVAREZ (2CO-CO2)

For these lower things have their delights, but not like my God, who made all things; for in Him does the righteous delight, and He is the joy of the upright in heart. ― Confessions, 5

KERA REGALADO (2CO-A16)

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
― On Life

ZERAH MELEA JUNE G. TIAGA (2CO-A16)

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. ― On Life

MAY GRACE B. MABAN (2CO -A12):

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.― Confessions

CHRISTIA MARIEL V. BELLOGA (2C0-A16)

What shall I render unto the Lord, that, whilst my memory recalls these things, my soul is not affrighted at them? I will love Thee, O Lord, and thank Thee, and confess unto Thy name; because Thou hast forgiven me these so great and heinous deeds of mine. ― Confessions

SARAH M. SEMILLANO (2C0-A16)

Not with uncertain, but with assured consciousness do I love Thee, O Lord. Thou hast stricken my heart with Thy word, and I loved Thee.  ― Confessions

SARAH LABEROS (2C0-A12)

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. ― On Humility